FsLab Journal

FsLab journal is a simple Visual Studio template that makes it easy to do interactive data analysis using F# Interactive and produce nice HTML to document you research.

The FsLab journal template automatically includes a reference to the FsLab NuGet package, so you can use all the great data science F# packages. The template also contains a runner that formats your script files usingF# Formatting and generates nice HTML reports. To write your reports, you can include Markdown-formatted text in comments starting with** and use other commands to embed charts, data frames and images. The report is generated and opened automatically when you hitF5.

When you generate a report, your code is nicely formatted, executed and the resulting charts and frames are embedded in the report.

FsLab libraries

The FsLab package automatically references the following F# libraries:

• Deedle for working with data frames and data series
• F# R type provider for interoperating with R
• F# Charting for building interactive charts
• F# Data with data-access with F# type providers
• Math.NET Numerics for writing numerical calculations